Bangladesh Data Center Company Limited (BDCCL) has selected Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to provide sovereign-hosted cloud services to the Bangladesh government.
BDCCL, the Bangladesh government-owned data storage and disaster recovery services provider, handed over the contract to Oracle in a ceremony in the Information and Communication Technology Ministry in Dhaka last week, Oracle said in a press release on Monday.
“Highly secure ‘government cloud’ will accelerate progress towards Digital Bangladesh,” State Minister Zunaid Ahmed Palak said at the contract handing over ceremony.
Led by the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Division, the initiative is aimed at accelerating the country towards its goal of becoming a “knowledge-based economy” by extending the use of secure, sovereign hosted, enterprise-class cloud and digital technologies to the various government agencies and ministries.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer will enable BDCCL to run its entire IT portfolio on cloud infrastructure and have physical control of infrastructure and data, ensuring that Government users meet the most demanding data sovereignty requirements.
Additionally, Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer will provide significant cost benefits by enabling users to quickly bring new applications and services online efficiently and cost-effectively compared to an on-premises platform.
“Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer will make it easier for government entities to securely move to the next stage of their cloud-enabled transformation,” said ICT Division Senior Secretary and BDCCL Chairman NM Zeaul Alam.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer will be hosted within ‘The Tier IV National Data Center’, the world’s 7th largest located at the Bangabandhu Hi-Tech City in Kaliakair.
It will provide BDCCL with access to all of Oracle’s cloud services, including bare metal compute, VMs and GPUs, Oracle Autonomous Database, and Oracle Exadata Cloud Service; container-based services like Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes; and analytics services, while also having control and governance of their systems and services.
BDCCL Managing Director Abu Sayeed Chowdhury and Oracle Bangladesh Managing Director Rubaba Dowla also spoke at the ceremony.
